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Property from an Esteemed American Collector

John Henry Twachtman

Beach at Squam

Auction Closed

May 16, 09:00 PM GMT

Estimate

60,000 - 80,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Esteemed American Collector

John H. Twachtman

1853 - 1902


Beach at Squam

signed JH Twachtman (lower left)

oil on canvas

25 by 30 ⅛ in.

63.5 by 76.5 cm.

Executed circa 1900.

Martha Twachtman, Greenwich (acquired by descent from the artist)

Mr. and Mrs. John E. Cowdin, New York (acquired from the above in 1908)

American Art Association, New York, 19 May 1916, lot 73 (consigned by the estate of the above)

Macbeth Gallery, New York (acquired from the above)

Burton Mansfield, New Haven (acquired from the above in 1916)

Anderson Galleries, New York, 7 April 1933, lot 72 (consigned by the estate of the above)

Macbeth Gallery, New York (acquired from the above)

Edward Reiss (acquired from the above in 1933)

Charles F. Williams, Cincinnati (acquired from the above by 1937)

Mr. and Mrs. James R. Williams, Cincinnati (acquired from the above by 1957)

Mr. and Mrs. David Workman (acquired by 1965)

Kraushaar Galleries, New York (acquired by 1966)

Mr. and Mrs. Chris Huntington, Waterville, Maine (acquired from the above in 1968)

Christie's, New York, 3 December 1982, lot 154

Borghi & Co., New York (acquired from the above)

Private Collection, New York

Ira and Nancy Koger, Jacksonville (acquired from the above in 1983)

Private Collection, Jacksonville

Sotheby's, New York, 29 November 1995, lot 33 (consigned by the above)

Spanierman Gallery, New York (acquired from the above)

Acquired from the above by the present owner

"A Trio of Painters: Pictures by Three Americans in Three Fifth Avenue Galleries," The New York Times, 7 March 1901, p. 8

"Twachtman Art Gets Highest Bid," The New York Times, 10 May 1916, p. 13

Eliot Clark, John Twachtman, New York, 1924, pp. 58 and 61, illustrated

Beaux-Arts, no. 6, 5 May 1933, p. 6, illustrated

Mary L. Alexander, "The Week in Art Circles," Cincinnati Enquirer, 17 January, 1937

John Douglas Hale, "The Life and Creative Development of John H. Twachtman," Ph.D. dissertation, vol. II., Ohio State University, Columbus, 1957, no. 48, p. 541

Sarah B. Sherrill, "Current and coming," Antiques, vol. 123, June 1983, p. 1138, illustrated in color

Lisa N. Peters, "John Twachtman (1853–1902) and the American Scene in the Late Nineteenth Century: The Frontier within the Terrain of the Familiar," Ph.D. dissertation, City University of New York, New York, 1995, vol. I, p. 477; vol. II, p. 997, fig. 497, illustrated

Lisa N. Peters, John Henry Twachtman Catalogue Raisonné, Greenwich, 2021 (jhtwachtman.org), no. OP.1417, illustrated in color

Art Institute of Chicago, Exhibition of the Works of John H. Twachtman, January 1901, no. 3

New York, Durand-Ruel, Paintings and Pastels by John H. Twachtman, March 1901

New York, School of Applied Design for Women, Fifty Paintings by the Late John H. Twachtman, January - February 1913, no. 31 (titled Sand Dunes, Annisquam)

New York, Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, 1920

Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum, Exhibition of Paintings, Pottery, and Glass Loaned by the Honorable Burton Mansfield, April - November 1920, no. 31

New York, Brooklyn Museum, Exhibition of Paintings by American Impressionists and Other Artists of the Period, 1880 - 1900, January - February 1932, no. 107

Cincinnati Art Museum, Paintings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Finn Williams, January - March 1937, no. 23, p. 17

New York, Brooklyn Museum, The Coast and the Sea: A Survey of American Marine Painting, November 1948 - January 1949, no. 118

Pittsburgh, Carnegie Museum of Art, The Seashore in Paintings of the 19th and 20th Centuries, October - December 1965, no. 51, n.p., illustrated

Cincinnati Art Museum, A Retrospective Exhibition: John Henry Twachtman, October - November 1966, no. 85, p. 19, illustrated

New York, Spanierman Gallery, John Henry Twachtman: An Exhibition of Paintings & Pastels, February 1968, no. 21, n.p., illustrated

Maine, Portland Museum of Art, The Ellen and Chris Huntington Collection, April - May 1976, no. 48

Winter Park, Rollins College, George D. and Harriet W. Cornell Fine Arts Center, The Genteel Tradition: Impressionist and Realist Art from the Ira and Nancy Koger Collection in Celebration of the Centennial of Rollins College, November 1985 - January 1986, pp. 82-83 and 93, illustrated in color

New York, Spanierman Gallery, Twachtman in Gloucester: His Last Years, 1900 - 1902, May - June 1987, no. 14, pp. 76-77, illustrated

Nashville, The Fine Arts Center at Cheekwood and Jacksonville, Cummer Gallery of Art, Selections from the Ira and Nancy Koger Collection of American Paintings, June - September 1989, p. 35, illustrated in color

Tampa Museum of Art; Vero Beach, Center for the Arts and Little Rock, The Arkansas Arts Center, At the Water's Edge: 19th and 20th Century American Beach Scenes, December 1989 - January 1991, pp. 10, 31-32, 44 and 74, illustrated in color

New York, Spanierman Gallery, The Intimate Landscapes of John H. Twachtman (1853 - 1902), May - July 1993

New York, Berry-Hill Galleries, American Paintings VII, 1994, pp. 190-91, illustrated in color

New York, Spanierman Gallery, Painters of Cape Ann, 1840 - 1940: One Hundred Years in Gloucester and Rockport, April - June 1996, pp. 7-8 and 15, illustrated in color

Greenwich Historical Society, The New Spirit and the Cos Cob Art Colony: Before and After the Armory Show, October 2013 - January 2014, pp. 6, 9 and 37, pl. 2, illustrated in color